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Technical Level Designer

Job Description

The incumbent is a game or level designer by training and is known for his/her technical skills. As part of a production design or multidisciplinary team, the designer will create and implement complex technical and/or system design elements into the game.

Acting as a technical reference for team members, the incumbent will assist, support and advise colleagues whenever necessary. The designer may also be called upon as one of the project’s technical experts on a specific game element.

Responsibilities:

• Autonomously oversee the production and implementation of the technical elements of a complete game feature by working in close collaboration with Technical Level Designers, programmers and collaborators in other work units
• Act as a technical expert on the topic and ensure the tools, documents, technical support and determination and dissemination of best practices
• Contribute to data optimization and validation by ensuring that colleagues comply with the technical standards that apply in the area of expertise, in keeping with budget constraints
• Take part in advanced data debugging until production has ended
• Periodically provide feedback to design Technical Level Designers, including suggestions to improve tools and methods, bugs, etc.
• As an expert user, help test new features and tools before they are deployed to the rest of the team
• Carry out production tasks as level designer and prototype the gameplay features during game design
• Design and implement elements that are more complex, more abstract or more technically challenging and which impact the entire game
• Carry out all other related tasks

Qualifications

Requirements:

• Minimum 3+ years in technical design, scripting or level design
• Game or level design (profile: more technical than creative)
• Curiosity and drive to understand how things work
• Solid analytical and problem-solving skills
• Adaptability, autonomy, proactivity
• Structure, attention to detail, efficiency
• Ability to clearly express ideas (spoken and written)
• Ability to understand and communicate in technical language
• User focus
• Experience with engines and/or platforms at an asset
• Experience with 2D/3D software an asset
• Programming/scripting experience an asset
• Knowledge of the Office suite

Additional Information

Ubisoft offers:

• International AAA game projects
• Access to cutting-edge hardware
• Experience using hottest internally developed game engines
• Proficient and fun-to-work-with colleagues
• Opportunity to travel abroad
• Medical / Life insurance
• English / French courses
• Long-term employment with 20 working-days paid vacation

If you want to see your name in credits of Ubisoft’s games. Excited by the idea of communicating with IT professionals from all over the world. Passionate about technology and video games.

Ubisoft Kiev has an opportunity for you!

Join Ubisoft Kiev Studio and become “Serious about fun” together with us!

Company Description

Ubisoft is one of the leaders in entertainment, with a rich portfolio of well-known brands worldwide. In Ukraine Ubisoft has two studios, Ubisoft Kiev and Ubisoft Odesa, which focus on strengthening Ubisoft's presence on all platforms, with the main expertize in PC. Ubisoft Kiev was established in 2008 and is one of the biggest GameDev studios in Ukraine that collaborated on blockbusters like Assassin's Creed®, Far Cry®, Steep®, Watch Dogs®, Trials®, Rainbow Six®, Ghost Recon ® and more. Ubisoft Odesa was opened in March 2018 and takes part in the development of Ubisoft’s world-known franchises.